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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) The murder of innocent people.
(b) Slaves being removed from their families.
(c) Slaves being sold in cities.
(d) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.

2. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1862.

3. In Chapter 4 Douglass says, "I speak advisedly when I say this,--that killing a slave, or any colored person, in" what county of "Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community" (20)?
(a) Wilson County.
(b) Talbot County.
(c) Clark County.
(d) Jackson County.

4. Who was Colonel Edward Lloyd?
(a) A slaveholder.
(b) A Civil War soldier.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

5. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?
(a) Not telling him who his father is.
(b) For dying.
(c) For leaving him even though he knows she could not help it.
(d) For coming to visit him, knowing she could get beaten for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the slaves say kind words about their masters?

2. How many overseers were there for the farms that Colonel Edward Lloyd owns?

3. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?

4. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?

5. What did the slaves produce on the main farm besides tobacco and corn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the punishment, if any, for killing a slave at this time in history?

2. What was the West Indies Experiment?

3. Describe in detail what was given to the slaves by the slaveholder as their rations. When did they receive these rations?

4. What upsets Douglass about his mother's death?

5. In the Preface, why does Mr. Garrison talk about a story that Daniel O'Connell has previously told?

6. What common practice upsets Douglass, according to his narrative in Chapter 1?

7. Why did Phillips risk his life to be a part of the anti-slavery movement?

8. What information does Douglass relate about himself in the beginning of Chapter 1?

9. Why does Phillips say he does not want to know Douglass's name or place of birth in the second Preface?

10. What is the importance of the songs of the slaves in Chapter 2?

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